Coming (almost) new to Markdown I'm struggling a bit. Could there be a 'how to start with Markdown' page/article, please. I have found the 'cheatsheet', but being confronted with an entire spec is daunting when all I want to do is type a few lines and add a bit of code. Maybe it's there but I've missed it.

I'll probably blunder about trying the various icons at the top of this box, and likely get it wrong. It will come with practice, of course.

I would prefer not to be typing in small boxes which are right at the bottom of my screen and unable to be scrolled up.

Did you know you can embed your code with highlighting? Okay, so I guess it is safe to assume that everyone knew you could do this, but do you know how to do it? [smile] The simplest method is to use backticks `, three of them to be exact (well six... but I'm jumping ahead here) on a single line, like so: ``` Followed by your code <a href="mylink.htm">My Link Text</a> Followed by three more backticks ` on a separate line. ``` Put it all together and you get: ``` <a href="mylink.htm">My...

There's a lot that I like in the Discourse forum, but there are two things that I really miss:

The equivalent of My Sitepoint in the old forum, that is, a place where I can see all the threads that I have posted in AND which contains new posts - all in one place, and nothing else (except perhaps things like pending friends requests and unread PMs). This was always my first stop when visiting the forum.

In the main Categories screen - the one that shows all the categories with the last three post headings in each - I wish I could hide the categories that I am not interested. In the old forum, you could collapse the main section headings, which had the desired effect.

One other minor point: Within the header of a recent post, I would prefer to see the actual date and time of the post, as in the old forum, rather than the less-intuitive "2d" or "4h". This is not a big issue - just a slight preference.

In the main Categories screen - the one that shows all the categories with the last three post headings in each - I wish I could hide the categories that I am not interested. In the old forum, you could collapse the main section headings, which had the desired effect.

I'm not sure there's any way to do that, but you can remove them from the topics which appear in the "New" and "Latest" categories by added them to "Muted" in your preferences. Not perfect, but it's a start.